ACORN “reclaims” foreclosed home for evicted owner: “This is our house now”
posted at 7:50 pm on February 20, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Ah, but it isn’t. The bank’s already resold it, as you’ll shortly see, which makes this publicity stunt worse than useless. Not only will the evictee be back on the street shortly, not only will ACORN be sweating criminal charges, but the moral case they’re trying to make to the public is a tough sell now that it’s known they’re breaking into a person’s home instead of a bank’s. And of course it puts The One on the spot, because as clips like this circulate he’ll eventually be asked about it and will be forced to condemn the practice, however tepidly. But other than that, it’s a PR bonanza. Click the image to watch.
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Until BHO pardons them.
jgapinoy on February 20, 2009 at 7:52 PM
what’s dummer than a criminal?
A criminal who does his acts knowingly in front of a camera and then posts his escapades proudly.
Pursue all criminal charges against these thugs NOW
gatorboy on February 20, 2009 at 7:54 PM
See the violence inherent in the Left. No regard for the concept of private property. No demanding of personal responsibility.
rbj on February 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM
ACORN STEALS homes from PEOPLE? The SHAME.
originalpechanga on February 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Remember the woman who said The One would fill her gas tank and pay her mortgage? She may have been right.
laelaps on February 20, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Is acorn taking cues from the Obama admin to create havoc and “popular unrest” as a means to provide political cover for his housing plan? Are these cues direct calls from the white house or is the groups smart enough to come up with these tricks on their own?
rob verdi on February 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
The stimulus money for ACORN already at work?
Wethal on February 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
They got what, $4 billion in the porkulus?
It's Vintage, Duh on February 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
No worries. With all the stimulus money Obama and crew are giving them they can spend our dough on good attorney’s.
Only in America.
patrick neid on February 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Our shame. ACORN is our tax dollars at work.
jgapinoy on February 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Now the poor woman is going to have to repaint, repair a door and put in stuff that thieves STRIPPED from the home.
GEE THANKS ACORN!
originalpechanga on February 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM
The brown shirts of the DNC. Cool. I think the POTUS calls this community organizing.
moxie_neanderthal on February 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM
No, I’m pretty sure you just recorded yourself and your co-conspirators breaking and entering.
Oldnuke on February 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM
What did he mean, ‘this is our house now!’ …?
4shoes on February 20, 2009 at 8:00 PM
ACORN should be considered a criminal enterprise.
VolMagic on February 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Okay. Now we can add “condoned lawlessness” to what this administration has brought us in the past 30 days.
DrStock on February 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
That man w/ the bolt-cutters should be arrested & made an example of.
If he can get away w/ that stunt then wait ’till you see what I try. In the name of the downtrodden of course.
JoeAvg on February 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
No Justice No Peace! Cutty Say He Can’t Hang.
keep the change on February 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Why aren’t we hearing more about these Toilet Bugs?? Last I heard they were under investigation in 13 states for voter registration shenanigans.
And how much are they getting in the new ‘Let’s Give Everyone Some Money Bill’??
Release the Hounds!
No, really. Kick in the door and send in the Dobermans….
BigWyo on February 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Acorn owns it?
I thought that after Porculus Palooza it was mine, along with several million other taxpayers.
Cody1991 on February 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Are any charges going to be filed?
Daniel-o-Hawaii on February 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
As if it was going to last longer than a day. Stupid stunt that impresses the ding-dongs
Bishop on February 20, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I hope the new homeowner has a lot of guns and bullets.
SouthernGent on February 20, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Our tax dollars at work.
Joe Caps on February 20, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Actually, the way I figure things we taxpayers own Acorn.
Can I be on the Board of Directors?
Cody1991 on February 20, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Next up, Barney Franks’ house?
Dusty on February 20, 2009 at 8:03 PM
I think I’ll head on down to Best Buy, pick out the largest LCD tv on the shelves, roll that sucker out the front door while yelling, “This is OUR tv now!”
Bishop on February 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Send in the squirrels!
bryan2369 on February 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Dude, why stop there? I’m heading on to my local dealership and driving off the lot with a sweet Caddy CTS. I’ve always wanted one and it wasn’t like they were going to sell it anyway.
Next weekend I plan on breaking in the neighbors house and annexing his property. They have a much nicer place.
Lay-Z on February 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Isn’t Acorn getting money from The Porkulus Bill?
Dr Evil on February 20, 2009 at 8:07 PM
The vice squad will be breaking in there.
jgapinoy on February 20, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Or Al Gore’s, or John Edwards’. Lord knows they’ve got enough room for a whole lot of people.
rbj on February 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Fixed it for you.
cobrakai99 on February 20, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Ha! The irony!
Tzetzes on February 20, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Everything I Know, I Learned From Obama:
1. Cheat on Taxes
2. Snub our Brave Troops While Hugging Terrorist
3. Insult Former First Lady Nancy Reagan During Press Conf
4. Spend $$Millions Jetting Around the Country While Millions are losing their Jobs.
5. Breaking & Entering
6. Spending the Fruits of Other’s Labor….
TN Mom on February 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM
It’s our House now! It’s our House now!
It’s a fact you can’t ignore!
Shut the windows, lock the doors!
It’s our House now!
Raise your mugs,
You thieves and thugs,
Join the rabble-raising crowd,
It’s our House now!”
/methinks ACORN has been watching too many Disney movies. Unreal.
TheQuestion on February 20, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Well,I’m going to say it,and here we go!
Is the main reason for Obama’s suggestion to have a
‘Civilian National Secruity Forces’ as the muscle to
be sent,to protect those by force,patrolling neighbor
hoods of the people who cannot afford or pay for the
houses they recieved through the banks!!
canopfor on February 20, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Will ACORN also break into companies and force them to give people back their jobs now?
DarkKnight3565 on February 20, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Start suing the ass off of ACORN.
Now that they helped Obama thug his way in he will throw them under the bus as well.
Gee isn’t this swell???
This is the group of thugs that will get BILLIONS of your tax dollars!
Are you pissed off yet?
izoneguy on February 20, 2009 at 8:17 PM
This clown from ACORN was probably the one who helped enforce the Community Reinvestment Act on the Banks to lend to this poor lady in the first place………….
…………. now it has come full circle.
If we could only wall liberals in, so they would have to live by the circumstances that they create, and leave the rest of us alone…………
……….. now that would be something to see.
Seven Percent Solution on February 20, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Yes, but you have to come in the back door!!
izoneguy on February 20, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Acorn’s new theme song.
Oldnuke on February 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Let the redistribution begin!
Laura in Maryland on February 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Lay-Z on February 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Good idea, though I might as well take the entire block of houses; suckas need some payback for 2,000 years of white greed or something like that.
*what’s that honey? Not all white families?*
Ok then, yeah the asian family too, for…for…for eatin’ that smelly food!
Bishop on February 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Speaking of that, whatever happened to that union sit-in 0 went to in Illinois just after the election? Wasn’t that basically the issue there?
Quisp on February 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Low level domestic terrorism at work.
Imagine if you would that you just bought this house. Do you feel comfortable moving in? You know the neighborhood has Acorn running about and they know where you live now. Do you feel comfortable moving in? Let’s say the local sheriff presses charges against the perps. The perps know where you live now? Still feel like moving in? If there is a hearing you may have to appear. Now they know what you look like. How good do you feel now?
patrick neid on February 20, 2009 at 8:22 PM
If Acorn-in-Chief weren’t president, what kind of time would these people be facing?
FloatingRock on February 20, 2009 at 8:24 PM
I do remember that woman and thought that she represented all the idiots voting for Obama. Now I realize that I am the idiot for thinking that it was not possible for this great country to be dragged down so quickly. Seriously, every time I see Obama, Pelosi, Reid, or any ACORN member I have this compulsion to buy gold and bury it in my back yard while I am still permitted to keep some of my income.
nic on February 20, 2009 at 8:24 PM
“Don’t bother they’re here!”
Flying Gadsden
Caststeel on February 20, 2009 at 8:25 PM
I can see Eminent Domain somehow being perverted (even more than it has been) by ACORN with the backing of leftist judges. Oy.
J.J. Sefton on February 20, 2009 at 8:26 PM
What can we do? It appears as if Acorn is gaining power and porkulus funding. We need to stop this … now! These people are beating us … we need some recourse. If we don’t fight them, they will own the votes in 2010.
ORrighty on February 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM
I’m wondering,while ACORN bail’s you out,
have some of these homeowners,used the
house as collateral,to get cash,from loan
company’s,or hasn’t anybody thought of,or
investigated that angle,
jus sayin!
canopfor on February 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM
This is a crime. The perpetrators are on tape. Their known whereabouts is roughly known through their organization. Seems easy. Watch it disappear. Just like Barry’s aunt. During the campaign he said if she was in violation of the law, she would have to bare the consequences. Watched it disappear. It might seem petty, but what happened to “equality”?
Itchee Dryback on February 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM
I would like to know if Obama himself developed and wrote this procedure while he was with ACORN.
faraway on February 20, 2009 at 8:32 PM
No law anymore
Streecar on February 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM
That is exactly how Union organizers and leftists think!
I remember when Eastern Airlines died for good and the Pilot’s Union was still picketing outside SeaTac Airport. Reporters asked them what they would do now and they answered, “Well, “they” can’t do that!”, as if whining would restart the company. They milled around for 8 or 12 hours more and then finally went away.
GunRunner on February 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM
This one still fits better.
Acorn Anthem
Or
Obama Anthem
tjexcite on February 20, 2009 at 8:33 PM
I’d love someone to ask these ACORN types why they believe that borrowing several hundred thousand dollars from the bank for home, and then making 5-10 payments on that loan equates to ownership? No doubt, the response would be something similar to Obama without his teleprompter.
swash_plate on February 20, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Break ACORN’s nuts with a Giuliani-style RICO investigation. Never happen with this administration.
J.J. Sefton on February 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM
How come US conservatives don’t get off their duff and come out with their own activists groups like ACORN? In a democracy, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. It’s always been like that and always will be. He who does the squeaking get his way. People, government, politicians, corporations, will all pay you to stop bothering them. That is how it works. Cynical but true.
Minorities, women, students, teh ghey, even the retired, have been very good at organized squeaking. That’s why they win. Yes, it was made possible by the fact that those groups drew their foot soldiers from the unemployed, and therefore, readily available, but the lesson can not be ignored. Either become politically active or your ideological adversaries will be your political masters in short time.
It’s just a sociological version of adaption, and survival of the fittest. Change and become active and fight or you, and what you consider to be your culture and way of life, and your values, will disappear. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Nor was it destroyed in a day. It decayed until it collapses. Remember it took the States about 90 years to establish itself. It takes another 90 years to decay back into the mud. The decay cycle started with FDR and the New Deal in the early ’30s. So do the math.
keep the change on February 20, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Unreal! When I saw this earlier today it was my defining point. This weekend I will purchase some protection, sign up for weapons class and otherwise get ready for just about anything. There will be more of this and I will be $(** if any ACORN-ite comes within a mile of my domain for anything! Never piss off a Taurus! The end result is not pretty!
Coastal Paradise on February 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM
And we all know that’s what REALLY pisses him off – being asked questions.
peski on February 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM
If you think Obama doesn’t know about and approve of this sort of thing I have a big old infrastructure project to sell you.
rockmom on February 20, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Look at these thugs — cutting the padlock on a door to a home that doesn’t belong to them.
This is the new America, thanks President Obama.
Richard Romano on February 20, 2009 at 8:40 PM
I’ll say it… would someone please put us out of our misery and get the birth certificate out there to get rid of this guy? We are losing our country to the do nothings.
suzyk on February 20, 2009 at 8:42 PM
I appreciate everyone’s philisophical input … but we need to develop our own vehicle that will enable us to get to the voters that haven’t got a clue. I don’t have the answer but I have the desire to get involved in a movement that will negate these freakoids (Acorn) tactics. We need to do something … unite!
ORrighty on February 20, 2009 at 8:43 PM
I agree. This guy should have already been arrested. He is nothing but a thug and a criminal.
This article gives the guy’s name as Lewis Beverly.
It says, “Police were at the home Thursday night looking for fingerprints and other evidence.” I assume that’s for others not on tape.
INC on February 20, 2009 at 8:44 PM
You can’t ask Obama about it because he’s on his weekly date with his radical wife. He is an embarrassment to this country.
suzyk on February 20, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Calling Mr. Smith. Calling Mr. Wesson. You are needed.
Mason on February 20, 2009 at 8:45 PM
ACORN is an ongoing criminal enterprise that should be taken down like the Mafia.
BottomLine5 on February 20, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Itchee Dryback on February 20, 2009 at 8:46 PM
FloatingRock on February 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Cant wait till Acorn gets their billions! Think of all the fancy computers and LCD big screens we can civil disobedience’ly like lift out of their offices.
javamartini on February 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM
We’re all Zimbabweans now…
elgeneralisimo on February 20, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Because we’re too busy actually working for a living so we can pay our own mortgages and fill up our own gas tanks. We don’t have time to spare to wander around breaking into other peoples houses and carrying stupid signs. Of course that may change soon.
Oldnuke on February 20, 2009 at 8:48 PM
When Obama came on the scene,fighting agianst Hillary,
in the Liberal primaries I really believed,at the time,
that Obama was going to change African American lifes,
well,he certianly is not!
At the time,I said the Republican Party was in the twenty
first century,
and the Liberal Party were stuck in the 1800’s!
And that is exactly the game,Obama is playing,he is trying
to make up for lost time,from the 1800’s right on through
the 1960’s!
You see it in his mannerism’s,and the way he speaks,and just
go back,and read some of his quotes,what ever the term,get
ting even,fairness,redistribution!
For whatever reason he wants to right the wrongs,theres no
hope,nothing positive,its all about the fair share and the
pain that America must endure!!!!
canopfor on February 20, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Just wait until ACORN gets billions in funds under the table from Fannie Mae and the new RAT Board prevents the Inspector General from even investigating it.
Good times!
rockmom on February 20, 2009 at 8:49 PM
A reading of the RICO laws is strongly advised. These people are traitors to the US…. pure and simple.
MNDavenotPC on February 20, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Here’s one thing we can do.
Fannie and Freddie are owned by the government now an subject to FOIA. We can file FOIA requests for the names and addresses of all the deadbeat homeowners who get bailed out by Fannie and Freddie. Then we can start knocking on their doors asking for our tax money back.
rockmom on February 20, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Someone who doesn’t understand basic spelling and grammar?
Proud Rino on February 20, 2009 at 8:52 PM
All property is theft, right?
Jim Treacher on February 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM
You’d think that that $5.2 billion groups like ACORN are getting, from the Stimulus Bill, now Law, would enable them to simply buy up properties and give them to those who are in need. Instead they are simply thugs preying on the vulnerable…but this is no surprise, is it?
“From each according to his ability to each according to his need.” — Karl Marx
Guess the ACORN Marxists never actually read Marx. They do not realize that now they are The Man.
coldwarrior on February 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Step 1. allow acorn to place ALL their employees in foreclosures, make sure they are all accounted for.
Step 2. arrest them. prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
Step 3. stimulus package funds diverted to new “prisons” system to deal with the increase in crimes committed. Millions employed as a result, place them in porker kings backyard.
Step 4. economic recovery achieved.
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on February 20, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Its a nation wide effort
Seen similar stories in other locations
Warning to ACORN
William Amos on February 20, 2009 at 9:04 PM
How come US Conservative don’t get off their duff…
keep the change on Feb 20,2009 at 8:35PM.
keep the change:
Because Republican Conservatives are ther backbone of America!
They are the ones that raise families,pray on Sundays,and
go to work on Monday’s!
They are the one’s that volunteer for what ever cause!
They are the ones that Salute and display old’glory,they
give the stars’n Stripes the dignity it so deserves!
They vounteer to fight,for war,to Liberate any country
that asks Lady Liberty for help and protection!
They are the Soldiers,Police,Firemen,and etc!
They build America up,and find ways to make it better,for
all Americans!
—————————————
Republicans don’t sit around dreaming up ideas how to tear
down,or tear apart America!
Republicans don’t protest,swear or spit,on their fellow
country-men,
those are just a few!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on February 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
FUBO
Reagan Nuff Said on February 20, 2009 at 9:05 PM
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89463
RealDemocrat on February 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Yes, well I already anticipated that response in my post to preempt that argument. If conservatives can’t find time to save their republic, because you are too busy working, you will be busy working for the socialists. Find time.
keep the change on February 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM
According to this story, Donna Hanks is an ACORN leader.
You ought to read the story on her. She bought the house outright in 2001 with cash from the sale of her other home and then over the last 7 years refinanced it, up the last one, borrowing $250,000 on it. Then she couldn’t pay the loan back.
Good ol’ Donna, supposedly with a $2,100 monthly income, took out a mortgage with $1,600 monthly interest payments and couldn’t pay it back when it jumped to $1,900/month.
All this because she got a flyer in the mail from Wells Fargo that was probably addressed to Resident. Stupidity this great should be a crime.
Dusty on February 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
There’s a very simple, inexpensive answer to tactics like this. It’s called a .45 on the other side of the door.
Just one incident like that occurs, and ACORN won’t be knocking on any more doors.
GarandFan on February 20, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Welcome to the new thugocracy. Can anybody imagine what an uproar there would be about this if these thugs would have been supporters of the Republican candidate? But since they are leftist I expect the media will give it a big yawn.
Maxx on February 20, 2009 at 9:10 PM
The bank isn’t obligated to re-negotiate your mortgage. Read the mortgage before you sign it!
This.Is.Just.Too.Much. @*#$^*@#$^)(@&#$%!!!!
fiscallyconservative on February 20, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Far out man…
FIFY
liquidflorian on February 20, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Yeah…and identity theft and being an illegal alien is against the law too.
Itchee Dryback on February 20, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Seems to me ACORN said this about another, somewhat larger house just over a month ago….
If you expect Osama Obama to say anything against his pals, you probably expect him to reject tax cheats in his cabinet.
MrScribbler on February 20, 2009 at 9:20 PM
I want to break into ACORNS office and RE-ALLOCATE
their computer equipment after a thourough forensic analysis
o ftheir hard drives..
I think its fair since WE PAID FOR IT…
jcila on February 20, 2009 at 9:21 PM
It wasn’t an argument and I wasn’t disputing what you said just supplying a reason. I’m certainly not saying that your position is wrong, matter of fact I pretty much agree with you. I’m also not defending those conservatives who ignore political reality and use working hard as an excuse to be uninvolved. When I hear “Oh I’m not into politics” I want to scream. But the sad fact is that people who actually work cannot spend as much time at “Organizing” as the parasites that Acorn recruits.
Oldnuke on February 20, 2009 at 9:24 PM
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